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Mitch PerryNovember 29, 2016

Last year, the city of Tampa joined Orlando, Miami, Key West and St. Petersburg as the only municipalities in Florida with Citizens Review Boards to police actions and policies. According to a South Florida House Democrat, that’s not nearly comprehensive enough to keep a watchful eye on deadly interactions between the police and the public. And […]

Mitch PerryMarch 14, 2016

More than four hours before Donald Trump convened a town-hall meeting at the Tampa Convention Center, people held their own counter rally at MacDill Park on the Riverwalk. It’s a short distance from where the once -hyped “Trump Tower Tampa” was to be built nearly a decade ago. “Donald Trump is calling for the mass surveillance of […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 21, 2015

Fourteen-year-old Andrew Joseph III was killed Feb. 7, 2014, as he tried to cross Interstate 4 in Tampa on foot just west of U.S. 301. He had been kicked out of the Florida State Fair for alleged disorderly conduct. He was among the more than 100 young people ejected that night after a stampede of teenagers had […]

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